Explore Unspool through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Unspool meaning
- To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind.
- To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight.
- To play; to be screened.
Using Unspool
- The main meaning on this page is: To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind. | To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight. | To play; to be screened.
- In the example corpus, unspool often appears in combinations such as: will unspool, to unspool.
Context around Unspool
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unspool
- In this selection, "unspool" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, story and june stand out and add context to how "unspool" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include band will unspool around 24 and festival will unspool june 21. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unspool" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unspool
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Luckily, you’ll have more than two notes to figure it out, as the band will unspool around 24 classic Harrison tunes. (22 words)
In the three months since, Parnas has begun cooperating with congressional investigators as they work to unspool his role in the Ukraine affair. (23 words)
As the reader of the story with a captive audience, I always enjoyed the feeling of power I had as the only one who could unspool the narrative. (28 words)
In the best podcasts I have listened to (“Buried,” the disappearance of Carey Mae Parker), you have to listen and let the story unspool for a long time before you can get a real inkling how to tell the white hats from the black. (44 words)
This summer will see the release of “Fast X,” “Kandahar,” “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” “ and the Dial of Destiny” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One” in the May-July time frame and the festival will unspool June 21-25. (41 words)
The re-imagined version of Pedro Penduko is going to link other films that will be part of a cinematic universe slated to unspool in theaters one after the other until 2021. (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
As the reader of the story with a captive audience, I always enjoyed the feeling of power I had as the only one who could unspool the narrative.
This summer will see the release of “Fast X,” “Kandahar,” “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” “ and the Dial of Destiny” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One” in the May-July time frame and the festival will unspool June 21-25.
In the three months since, Parnas has begun cooperating with congressional investigators as they work to unspool his role in the Ukraine affair.
In the best podcasts I have listened to (“Buried,” the disappearance of Carey Mae Parker), you have to listen and let the story unspool for a long time before you can get a real inkling how to tell the white hats from the black.
Luckily, you’ll have more than two notes to figure it out, as the band will unspool around 24 classic Harrison tunes.
The re-imagined version of Pedro Penduko is going to link other films that will be part of a cinematic universe slated to unspool in theaters one after the other until 2021.
Common combinations with unspool
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- will unspool 2×
- to unspool 2×